Reading Response 4

The reading was about improving human comprehension through streamlining the thought process and using computers. Like the last reading, it suggests creating a real-time thinking computer to aid humans in finishing tasks faster and present it in different ways for those who think differently. The whole purpose is to find the weaknesses in critical thinking and remove them in the future with technology. In the end, they want to be able to use computers to help in long and short term situations through its programs and suggest future actions from the results.

I thought the reading was okay because it made sense where they were going with this concept but it'll be a long time before it can actually be produced and executed. I don't even expect this to happen within my life time considering what we've already accomplished within the short span of 20 years. Also, considering that there are many different types of people with extremely different ways of thinking, it may be harder to create a computer that could provide the same aid to the different schools of thought.

Along with that, I believe that it may not be wise to go this route in computer programming because it may in fact hinder the productivity of human thinking. Even now, without the aid of computers, some humans can not even do basic arithmetic. Would computers really help people think better or just make us all lazier to even think for ourselves? Unfortunately, only time will tell if this is the fate of humans and computers.